Gen. VII. 



Nostrils rounded. 



^GYPIUS Savigny (1809). 



Size large, length 42 in. ; plumage blackish 



brown ; ruff of feathers round hind neck. 



j^gypius monadms (Linn)., S.N., i., p. 122 



(1766). 



Cinereous Vulture 



S.E. EurojDe, 

 N.E. Africa, 

 C. Asia to 

 India & 

 China. 



Gen. VIII. GYPS Savigny (1809). 

 Nostrils perpendicular, rather oval ; tail with 14 feathers 



Size large, length 40 in. ; plumage stone-buff ; 

 neck ruff of white clown ; head with white 

 down. 

 8. G^jps fulvus fulvus (Gmel.). S.N., i., p. 249 

 (1788). 

 Griffon Vulture. 



Plumage paler and more isabelline reddish. 

 8a. Gijjis fulvus fulvescens Hume, Ibis. 1869, 

 p. 356. 

 Indian Griffon. 



Paler than G. fulvus fulvns, especialty below, 

 and shaft strijies nearly obsolete. 

 8b. Gijj)s fulvus kolbi (Daud.), Traite, ii., p. 15 

 (1800). 

 Kolbe's Griffon. 



Plumage above isabelline whitish ; below light 

 buff with broader Avhitish shaft stripes. 

 9. Gyps hinmlayensis Hume, Roush Notes, i.. 

 p. 14 (1869).' 

 Himalayan Griffon. 



DoMTi on head yellow ; plumage above blackish 

 brown with whitish edgings ; below creamy 

 buff ; crop-patch dark brown. 

 10. Gyjjs rueppeUi ruejj'pelli (Brehm), Naum. 1852, 

 heft 3, p. 44. 

 Rueppell's Vulture. 



S. Europe, 

 (ace. Britain), 

 N. Africa, 

 Arabia, 

 Palestine. 



N.W. India, 



Himalayas, 



Afghanistan. 



S. Africa, 

 N. to Zam- 

 besi and 

 Damaraland. 



Turkestan, 

 Himalayas, 

 Thibet. 



N.E. ^\frica, 

 Abyssinia, 

 N. Nigeria, 

 Senegambia. 



